Amy Thompson: Cambodia

Photograph © Amy Thompson-All Rights Reserved
Amy Thompson is a talented photojournalist who recently completed her masters in documentary photography from Ohio University and is currently teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art. Amy worked as a freelance and staff photographer for The New York Times (Washington D.C. bureau) and was a featured photographer in National Geographic Magazine.

Supported by a grant from the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, she created and produced an essay Peace, Violence and Visitors, which is chosen for this post. Her photographs captioned "Hunting for frogs" and "Selling bok-shoy" in the photo essay amply demonstrate her talent.

To me, Amy's photograph of a lay nun (aka doan-chi) in the Bayon Temple in Angkor Wat, with the smoke of the incense sticks obscuring her face, is a "decisive moment" photograph.

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Posted in: Cambodia,Photographers: Photojournalists

Pulitzer Prize: Breaking News Photography

Photograph © Adrees Latif -All Rights Reserved
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced a short while ago, and Adrees Latif of Reuters was awarded the $10,000 2008 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography for his photograph of a Japanese videographer, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.

Mahmud Hams of Agence France-Presse was also nominated as finalist in this category for his picture of a missile, caught in mid-air, as it falls on a target in the Gaza Strip while young Palestinians scramble for safety.

2008 Pulitzer Prizes

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Posted in: Photo Events

TTP Recap of the Week

For your convenience, here's the past week's (March 31-April 6, 2008) most popular posts on TTP:

Karen Huntt: PNG.
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta
Edirol R-09HR

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Posted in: TTP Recap

4th Angkor Photography Festival

Françoise Callier, Curator of The Angkor Photography Festival, has announced that it will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from November 23rd to 28th, 2008.

For the program of exhibitions and slideshows, projects photographed worldwide, not just in Asia, are welcomed by the selection committee.

The deadline for submitting work is July 15th, 2008. The selected photographers will receive a reply during the month of August.

Details are available at : The Angkor Photography Festival

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Posted in: Events,Festivals,Photojournalism

Ehrin Macksey: Pulikali

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Ehrin Macksey is a multimedia freelance producer, designer and programmer. He graduated with an engineering degree with specializations in business and web programming from the University of Florida.

He spent part of his life in the Middle East, and traveled in South East Asia, where he developed a love for photography. He currently photographs social, economical and political issues in Vietnam.

Here is his multimedia feature on Pulikali, or the "Tiger Dance", which is a folk dance and art form from Trissur in the south of India. The unusual dance is performed during the Onam festival which occurs in the months of August or September.

You can also see other multimedia work by Ehrin at Relative Exposure and The Raw File

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Posted in: India,Multimedia

Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta

I'm a Luddite when it comes to imaging software, and in justification I have to say that I don't spend much time fiddling with my images. While I certainly use Adobe's Photoshop to prep my images before displaying, printing or selling them, I seldom use its more advanced tools. I decided to leave these to people better qualified than I am.

However, I decided to give Adobe Lightroom 2.0 (Beta) a try, and downloaded its trial. Having no patience to read manuals or tutorials, I just took a plunge and I must say that it's one heck of a program! As I haven't used its predecessor, I can't make any comparisons (my friend Gavin Gough did on his blog) nor can I add anything that hasn't been written or said since it was released. I currently use iView for digital asset management, but Lightroom is sorely tempting me to switch.

To my utter delight, I am creating Flash-based slideshows with Lightroom with incredible ease...and just can't stop!

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Posted in: Innovative Stuff,Soft Gear

Smithsonian 5th Annual Photo Contest

The Smithsonian magazine has announced the selection of 10 Finalists in its 5th Annual Photo Contest. We are told that its judges reviewed 7,500 photographs from around the world.

The five categories are Americana, The Natural World, People, Altered Images, and Travel. The Grand Prize Winner and the five Category Winners will be announced in the July 2008 issue of Smithsonian, and on its web site on July 1st.

The Smithsonian's 5th Annual Photo Contest

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Posted in: Contests